Just did a bunch of catch up and then posted. I addressed everyone who has access to the Gulf.

UMD
Legion
Grey Hawks
MWBoS
New Confederacy (kinda)
FBoS

And Tiber, I addressed you about expansion a while back, I can re-post if you want.

Haha, MANY references thank you very much I mean, our entire capital city was based off Pendragon, the capital of the Holy Britannian Empire. References are always a fun thing to implement.

Heck, if I could of gotten away with it, I'd have put in some Transformers or Gundams or something. But that would have been... too much haha. Imagine a Megatron running around... we'd all be screwed then.

Would have made for a interesting calamity all the nations would have to had come together to defeat however lol.

Anyway, back on topic, I'll get a post up here pretty soon.

Also, how much longer is this Summit going to last? Where is the next one going to be held? We making timelines like normal this time 'round?

I say it should be either a mutant or neutral country considering this Convention was held in the USA.

I'm gonna have to vote a "no" on that one. At least the mutant part.

I'm pretty sure the anti-mutant countries would rather just stay home than go to a mutant country, the very thing they despise. It just wouldn't make sense honestly. I know the Chancellor would have to have some serious incentive to even think about showing up. Remember, these people are basically anti-mutant fanatics.

Neutral wouldn't be so bad however. I just don't think it'd be possible to get such those of us that hate mutants anywhere near a total mutant nation, well, at least with the intent of peace talks.

That, and I think Tundra has the only mutant faction here, and he said the Under Dwellers are a secretive bunch, so I wouldn't imagine they'd like the idea of letting all of us obvious "haters" know where they are

And that is my rant for the night. Feels good to get that out there.

To counter your rant I'll just say that the mutant delegate(s) would feel the same about going to a nation of bigots, especially when they get weapons pointed at them *cough cough*.

Your correct though, neutral would be better. Who all is neutral anyway?

What about the Florida BOS? They're *kinda* neutral.

The only mutant nation being represented right now is the under dwellers. Everyone else (beside the anti-mutant factions) is technically neutral really.

Oh is the Convention over now? You voting on where to hold it next?

The RP isnt over, but yes, the current "meeting" is drawing to a close I would say.

Isn't the next convention in Honolulu? Seems sort of incoveinent though.

Maybe have the it in some MWBoS place, like Chicago, St. Louis, or Kansas City.

@Lt. Skri addressed Eden

Oops. Sorry tundra, I missed that. I'll go ahead and edit a response in. Thanks for pointing that out.

We should hold the next convention at the Underdwellers. It will be interesting.

Alright Tundra I edited my post in response to Skri.



That's just not a good idea. None of the anti-mutant factions would want to come.

Yeah plus the Under-Dwellers would not allow it

Yeah, like I said, I'm not sure how the anit-mutant factions would even consider going. There really isn't much incentive for them to go honestly. It just doesn't make sense to me I guess.

And like Tundra said, based on what he's told us of the Under Dwellers thus far, they wouldn't allow something like that anyway, let alone people that Skrii knows full well would like nothing more than to see him dead.

Ok lets hold it in FBOS. Just tell me when you guys are ready to move on.

I'm ready to go to the next one. Florida it is.

I'm ready here as well. I need to reply to Ranger real quick, but once I do that I'm ready to roll.

Griff's reaction to the Flordia BoS is going to be rather grim though lol. He doesn't like them much as of now.

I'd like to finish up some business but if if need be I'll be just fine moving on.

It's going to be in Florida next? Excellent, very fortuitious.

Indeed. Should allow for your faction to join in quite nicely.

I should be joining the next convention scene as a new faction from across the seas, this Faction Sheet has been approved by Bos but I'm assuming that we'll discuss the hows and such when it's time:




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The direct continuation of the pre-war United Kingdom state that survived the Resource and later Great, wars; the state survived nuclear devastation through a series of nuclear shelters across the country built for continuity of government. The royal family was however killed in the exchange shortly after their aircraft took off form the Kensington Gardens and the emergency post-war Parliament sought to abolish the constitutional powers of the monarchy, transferring the existing royal powers to an elected official, the Lord Protector; the House of Lords was then abolished by the new Lord Protector at the request of Parliament to greatly ease the legislative and government process, this marked a series of sweeping Parliamentary reforms. Though created as a largely subservient role, the authority of the Lord Protector and the scope of the incumbent’s power have only grown with time as has the weight of his advisory “Council of State”.

Great Brytain itself was a true wasteland; great pre-war cities had become ruins of rubble and crawling with disease. From its new underground capital “Hawthorn” in Corsham, Wiltshire, the Commonwealth quickly established a web of control across the island. Promised relatively reasonable amounts of food, shelter and safety, great swathes of the surviving public gathered in the small pre-war towns which would become the new major population centres of the future; these people would become little more than slaves that harkened back to medieval serfdom, toiling away in agricultural and manufacturing projects under the watch of Brytish soldiers.

Subsequent generations were kept largely docile, poorly educated and dependant on the states handouts. They were more than content to live lives of abject poverty and hardship for their few blessed comforts; in-addition to alcohol, ganja had become another of the common mans life supplements, paid out almost like currency of which the serf (commonly known as proles) only ever saw from a distance.

Though bands of “wildmen” and genuine resistance continues to cause trouble from their hidden lairs progress continued, Brytish soldiers quickly established dominion in Ireland – which had ecologically fared somewhat better than Great Brytain. But old habits die-hard and Europe, for-ever a jigsaw of nationalities, is in a state of constant war between new and old-world nations; for the UK this enemy is France, old-world France, which survived much like the UK, itself, had. As France pushed south into former Germany, Brytain seized much of Normandy and re-asserted itself over former Channel Islands territory. Brytain and France continue to fight over control of Normandy, coastal Brittany and, in-particular, the Flanders region of former Belgium; there currently exists a shaky peace between them in the face of the looming threats from further east whom have also tired of fighting each-other.

Seeking new lands too conquer and trade with (much like before), the Lord Protector has deigned to create the “Commonwealth Colonial Office” and assigned to it assets from the Brytish Army and Navy for colonial expansion into the Caribbean and North America.

Government, Society & Economy

The UK is a noble republic, with the Lord Protector (and his Council of State) as the head of state and the almost 1000 year-old Parliament as the legislative body. 85% of the registered population (thus not including wildmen, traitors and those un-accounted for in the ruins of cities) are proles with the remaining 15% their freeman overlords with a clear class divide between the two, in-addition to governance freemen become merchants, doctors, engineers and scientists whilst the proles work the land, in mines and scavenging the cities for currently non-replaceable technologies; enlisted personnel of the armed forces are also drawn from the prole ranks.

The Proles themselves are docile and subservient, dependant on the rule of the nobles because of their own intentionally stunted education. They are concerned entirely with ultimately meaningless and trivial personal and local concerns, preferring to spend their down time intoxicated on alcohol at the public house, or cannabis in a ganja den, as opposed to doing anything constructive with their time (admittedly in the rare instance such an opportunity may exist). Should their fervour or support be required, usually for war with France, they can be riled up into a somewhat patriotic fervour under the illusion of purpose and reward. For them, this is the way it always has been and so shall it be – this uncommon realisation perhaps the greatest feat of existentialism the prole will make.

On a larger scale (often beyond that of the prole) Brytain itself is governed, regionally, in a neo-feudalist system. Pre-war Brytish counties (or shires in Scotland) have been subdivided into baronies, in return for authority and privilege over the land Barons are expected to run the barony responsibly and profitably and provide taxes and tithes of personnel to the Brytish government. Barons also have their own, heavily regulated, private army to deal with regional strife from wildmen and rebels, but may call upon the assistance of the Brytish Army if need be. There are many hundreds of Barons whom make up the greatest number of attendance as Members of Parliament. Above the Barons come the Earls whom, in-addition to their own barony, are responsible for keeping the other barons in-check as-well as dealing with regional issues and being able to work for their counties behind the scenes of Parliament politics; they are something of an intermediary position between the barons and full government officials. Finally come the Dukes, who command new, post-war jurisdictions; 11 Regional Seats of Government (created as part of Brytish continuity plans) across the UK incorporate many counties on entirely geographic (as opposed to historic) justifications. All Dukes are Earl’s who have seceded their baronies to their next-of-kin in place of pre-war underground bunkers built expressly to run these zones after the war.

Money, decimalised Great Brytish Pounds, only change hands between freemen as proles are compensated directly with food, alcohol and ganja. The economy itself is highly regulated by the government whom work in-tandem with their fellow merchant nobles; existing corporations are in-effect extensions of the government and both designed and operated to increase the amount of money in government coffers. The creation of the Commonwealth Colonial Office will lead to possibilities for new ventures safe from incursion by European powers.

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Military

The Brytish Army continues much like it did before the war as an entirely volunteer force, drawing its ranks from the hordes of proles which make up the population; though somewhat more educated and literate than their peers they represent very much the same attitude, fighting more for survival and pride. They are rude, ill-kempt but vicious in-combat. Officer ranks are however drawn from freemen and are likely the only time that any freeman may genuinely bond with a prole, though separate by class, wealth and status in every respect and even back at the barracks, the battlefield often makes strange bedfellows of men; officers are always literate, always educated and indeed display a greater amount of physical prowess than their noble brethren – they are never found wanting on the battlefield.

The pre-war http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/XL70E3_%28Fallout_Tactics%29 remains the standard issue rifle of the Brytish Army, its fame as “almost indestructible” is due to the advanced polymers used in its construction. This same trait however has made the weapon impossible to currently produce on a mass scale making every rifle both valuable and often more-so than the soldier using it; recovery of these weapons on the battlefield is both strongly encouraged and rewarded. The soldiers themselves wear khaki buff coats with trousers of a slightly darker shade and black leather boots; the torso is protected by a cuirass constructed from advanced polymer and alloys combining manoeuvrability with moderate protection. Field-officers will also be armed with a slight variation on the Brytish naval cutlass, essentially a machete, which can make short-work of a man in close-quarters-combat.

Of these footsloggers the most elite are the Coldstream Guards (also called the Republican Guard); ancient and elite, this regiment is the oldest still in-service and has fought in most conflicts from the English Civil War onwards – during which they fought to establish the first Commonwealth of England.

In-addition, the Brytish Army also makes heavy use of Dragoons; they are the elite of the Brytish Army and are composed almost entirely of veterans from regular continental conflicts. Though, nominally, trained as infantry they are regularly deployed on horse-back and armed with a XL70 and an automatic pistol; they gallop across and around the battlefield picking off targets and hone their skills at-home hunting animals and rebels across the wasteland.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00998/Navy-vessels-460_998290c.jpg has since shirked its “royal” moniker since the Great War and has absorbed the duties of the Royal Air Force; the core role of the force though remains the same. Lavished with funding, research and manufacturing prospects the Brytish Navy is the most powerful and respected force in the Brytish military. Consisting largely of pre-war surface and submersible vessels, as-well increasingly more post-war constructions, it is truly a force to be reckoned with on the high and coastal seas and responsible for the successful conquests across France’s northern coastline and many more in the future. The Navy prefers to concentrate more on air-defence than offence, though air craft carriers and their compliments often remain the centrepieces of most naval groups. It could very well be the only navy in Europe, or even the world, worthy of being called a “blue-water” navy able to project it’s power – theoretically – anywhere in the world without leaving the Brytish Isles undefended.

I'm good to go. Just want Bishop to speak with Michelle, Eden, and Griff at some point.

I'm in the same boat as Fish here...

Yes please repost it., Also we bought some ports that have access to the gulf.